Hal Willner

Willner began providing sketch music for NBC's "Saturday Night Live" in 1980 and was music producer of the critically acclaimed but short-lived series "Michelob Presents Sunday Night" (syndicated, 1988-89), hosted by David Sanborn and produced by Lorne Michaels. He has also been music producer on such TV projects as tributes to Bugs Bunny and Superman (both CBS, 1986 and 1988), "Punch & Judy Get Divorced" (PBS, 1992), "The Music of Kurt Weill: September Songs" (PBS, 1995), the series "Live from the House of Blues" (TBS, 1995-1996) and others.

Willner's first big screen outing was the score for the animated short "The Duxorcist" (1987), the same year he was a music producer on the feature "... Continue Bio >>